OpenAccess is glad to announce that we have put into production a new circuit providing us with direct Tier-1 nationwide and global Internet transport.

This will improve performance and provide even greater availability of services across the U.S. and into both Europe and Asia for our business customers with far flung operations.

It also keeps OpenAccess ahead of the curve as video downloads and ipTV services start to roll out in full force. We also now deliver high quality connectivity directly to a wide array of the hottest companies now working on internet video.

We will also continue to stay connected to our regular local and regional providers, although some Seattle based internet providers will be slightly 'farther away' across the Internet for a while. In particular, for those of you on our fiber system who frequently use certain Seattle based internet providers for speed tests to guage your bandwidth performance, you may find most now averaging around 18mbps instead of the regular 40-60mbps you are used to seeing. Although these speeds are clearly adequate for most folk's needs today, we will still be moving forward this summer getting connected directly to Seattle based providers. Also, you should find both bandwidth and latency to places like Chicago, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, New York and Tokyo a little bit sweeter.

Over the summer of 2010 OpenAccess has rolled out digital telephone service for ourselves, affiliated companies and a few customers who were willing to be 'guinea pigs'. Overall things went better than we expected and we are now opening up our digital telephone service plans to more customers.

OpenAccess will be having a mid range time line for adoption and
implementation of IPv6. As most people know who are reading this, there
is a certain 'chicken & egg' problem with IPv6 in as much for any
organization to move to IPv6 requires that other organizations have
moved to IPv6.

This fall, OpenAccess will be re-purposing the 'nas.com' domain name to provide VPS and WebHosting services, primarily wholesale to web developers.
If you have an e-mail address @nas.com, or a personal website located at http://www.nas.com/~yourusername, those services will continue be supported although we will not be accepting new accounts.

Due to popular request, we now have a Joomla auto-installer available on our newer cPanel® servers. This allows customers to quickly and easily install Joomla on their website. The auto-installer is available under the 'site software' section in the administrative interface of your webhosting account.

OpenAccess is happy to finally be able to announce that we are beginning internal testing of cPanelŽ/Enkompass as a platform for our customers to be able to deliver Windows(c) 2008 Server solutions on.